Everyone says they’d love having a small phone, then buy something else when it’s time to spend money.
I own a Palm Phone, a Unihertz Jelly, an iPhone 13 Mini, a Light Phone 2. Although, from that line up only the iPhone 13 Mini is viable. The rest of the phones come with other issues…
I also don’t have heavy phone usage, so battery life isn’t really a problem for me.
I don’t know about foods, but do you know how to play a wind instrument? Playing trumpet for 30 seconds has been a 100% cure for me. Then you can get on with the eating.
In the digital age, you still have to talk with humans. What did my coworker tell me again? The wheels need to be torqued to 150 Nm or ftlb or lbft? Shoot. He’s busy helping other customers now… uhh… I’ll just wing it.
Really my main point of doing this was to try something different. I’ve been neutral on flatpak this whole time. I’ve never had problems with native installs, but I’m also a little judicious on what I try to install on my systems. The point of this exercise was to flip those habits.
About flatpaks, I’ve learned:
Distrobox has also been cool because I usually don’t like to install random crap on my machine, but with Distrobox I’ve been doing just that. I can install random C++ libraries, Node, Haskell, Postgres, etc and not worry about polluting my main system I actually care about. In the past, I would take some time to consider if I should really install this random thing. And yes, I’d pacman -Rs pkg if it didn’t pan out.
I’m not sure if I’ll keep running the system like this, but so far it’s been interesting to run things a little differently.
Things I’ve liked:
flatpak is easy/niceThings I don’t personally care about (but other people might and that’s fine):
Things I didn’t like:
Honestly, just because I’m the most comfortable in Arch. I tried VanillaOS briefly, but it was way too annoying to install tailscale, so I went back to what I know.
Luckily, I’m able to afford more than an 8GB SSD on my laptop. 😆
$ podman system df
TYPE TOTAL ACTIVE SIZE RECLAIMABLE
Images 2 1 2.775GB 2.293GB (83%)
Containers 1 0 3.492GB 3.492GB (100%)
Local Volumes 2 2 0B 0B (0%)
$ flatpak list | wc -l
65
$ du -hs /var/lib/flatpak
12G /var/lib/flatpak
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/cryptroot 234G 31G 191G 14% /
A 256GB drive is on the smaller side and I’m barely at 14%. Storage is cheap.
I recently brought over some ideas from VanillaOS over to my Arch install.
That gives me like 50% (idk fake number) of the features from VanillaOS, but I get to keep control over my system.
Not that I ever had any problems with native pacman installs though… so… not sure how much benefit I’m really getting from doing this. I guess my pacman -Syu command runs faster now. That’s something…
Taken 3, Sonic 3.
Started watching Gone in 60 Seconds.
Convenience beats owning things. 99.999% of non-techies I’ve talked to do not want to manage their computer or media. They don’t want to learn how things work or how to fix them. The video says it, “… it took away the burden of ownership.”
I can’t even convince them to use my seedbox to torrent media—heck I’ve even offered that I’ll do all the work, they just have to access Jellyfin! But, no. They prefer to pay to get access to the media now instead of messaging me, waiting for me to get the media, and then watching it.
At the same time, they’ll complain that “everything is a subscription now!” I’m like bro…
Holy moly, I did not know this existed! Thanks! Just turned this on!
I just sold my Framework 13 after daily driving it for a year. The HiDPI display bugs and workarounds just got too annoying.
I went back to my old Dell XPS 13 9310 and I’m loving it.
Any resources you’d recommend?
I suspect that it goes down and stays down whenever there is an app update, but I haven’t confirmed it yet.
Does the plain wireguard app stay up during updates?
if the cameras don’t load, open Tailscale and make sure it’s connected
I’ve been using Tailscale for a few months now and this is my only complaint. On Android and macOS, the Tailscale client gets randomly killed. So it’s an extra thing you have to manage.
It’s almost annoying enough to make me want to host my services on the actual internet… almost… but not yet.
One time, I was at a concert at a small-ish venue. I went to see a popular-ish band that I like, place was packed. The band started like 30-45 minutes late. When they finally got on stage, I happened to yell out during a brief pause, “Finally! We’ve been waiting forever!”
No one said anything and the show kept moving—but immediately after I yelled that the girl in front of me turned around and gave me a huge scowling look, like she was super embarrassed for me, like I had just done something really awful.
That look has stuck with me ever since.
Seems like these guys: https://nubo.coop/en/
They provide email, calendar, contacts, and cloud storage.
On their mission statement page they explicitly have:
not seeking to enrich shareholders
Interesting. I’m saving this for later.
The American dream is an all time amazing piece of propaganda that has left every American imagining that one day, through hard work, they will become the oppressor
Wow, yeah. Well put. This is why they only care about “winning”.
unless you regularly haul things, you don’t need a truck of any size. Unless you regularly go off-road or are transporting 5+ people and a dog or more, you don’t need an SUV. You can rent one of those for the rare times you need it!
Maybe… but why not go further?
Unless you regularly transport more than 1 person, you don’t need a car. You can rent one of those for the rare times you need it!
Buy a motorcycle or bike instead?
I love the little cultural differences here. In the US, our old traditional saying of “grab 'em by the pussy” means you’re fit to be president. But I guess other countries interpret this as sexual harassment. 🤷 😭